The First Sleepless Night

Nobody tells you that the hardest part isn't the birth.

It's the first night home. The instructions that don't quite cover your specific baby. The 3 a.m. Google searches you make in secret, only to find out your husband already Googled the same thing.

The First Sleepless Night follows Emma and Noah through the tender, exhausted, quietly hilarious first days of new parenthood — the toast that appears without being asked for, the soup from a neighbour, the lemon notebook filling up with evidence that they are figuring it out, one hour at a time.

A short story about the ordinary miracle of keeping a small person alive, and loving the person beside you while you do it.